2008 World Series of Poker

Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Eli Dodges Kings

Eli Elezra raised preflop from late position and the player in the cutoff called. Mark Newhouse, from the button made it 10,000 to go. Eli moved all in, the cutoff got out of the way, and Newhouse called.

When the player in the cutoff folded his cards into the muck, he announced he was folding kings. Eli, not believing him, grabbed the cards out of the muck and turned them over. Sure enough, he had folded kings.

Newhouse turned over pocket sevens to see Eli's pocket jacks.

"What are you doing?" Eli asked the player in the cutoff after the hand.

"I wonder how you can fold that," Newhouse chimed in.

The board failed to help Newhouse and after the hand he is down to 17,800. Interestingly enough, the pocket kings would have taken the hand down.

Tags: Eli ElezraMark Newhouse